Cooking chestnuts in different pots takes different amounts of time.
1, with a normal pot to cook,
direct water to cook chestnuts, time about 30 minutes.
Put the chestnuts into the pot, add the right amount of cold water, cover the pot, cook on high heat, 15 minutes after the change to small fire cooking, then cook for another 15 minutes, uncover the pot, chestnuts are basically cooked, if there is still uncooked can be boiled for a while.
2, cook with a pressure cooker:
Cook chestnuts with a pressure cooker, the time will be shorter. About 10-15 minutes.
Chestnuts into the pressure cooker, do not put too much, fill the pressure cooker one-third of the good, slightly more water, open a small fire to cook for 10-15 minutes, until the pressure cooker a lot of gas can turn off the fire, wait for the pressure cooker to cool down, open the lid can enjoy it!
2 How long does it take to peel chestnuts
1, you can first use a knife to cut a cross in the chestnut openings, and then put into the pot, put the right amount of water, boil chestnut skin will rise open, easy to tear the skin on it!
2, prepare a pot of cold water, will not peel the chestnuts into the pot, open fire to cook and lift, and then immediately poured into cold water, soak 10-20 seconds or so, lift and drain the water, chestnut skin will be because of cold shrinkage, it is very easy to get rid of. Similarly, cooked and put in the refrigerator can also be frozen, and frozen chestnuts have some flavor Oh.
3 how to cook chestnuts delicious steamed chestnuts
1, the chestnuts clean, drain water.
2, with a knife in the chestnut back cut a knife.
3, into the steamer drawer, steam on high heat, turn to medium heat for 15 minutes, see the chestnut opening on the good!
Chestnut burnt ribs
Ingredients: ribs: 500 grams, chestnuts: 300 grams, other spices, spices can be added according to their own preferences.
1, ribs chopped small pieces of clean, pot of water add two pieces of ginger and a little wine to boil the water into the ribs after cooking for about two minutes, fishing up with warm water to wash away the foam spare.
2, raw chestnut core peeled and washed spare.
3, put the oil in the pot to heat, put the ribs, stir-fry until the surface of the ribs is golden and slightly burnt.
4, into the spices stir fry until you can smell the flavor of spices.
5, the fried ribs and spices fishing up, hot oil continue to stay in the pot, in the hot oil put a few pieces of rock sugar.
6, stir fry on low heat until the rock sugar dissolves into caramel color.
7, quickly pour in the ribs and spices stir fry, evenly coated with sugar color.
8, add cooking wine, soy sauce, old soy sauce stir fry.
9, add boiling water that does not exceed the ribs, cover and cook on low heat for about 20 minutes.
10, 20 minutes after adding chestnuts, small fire and then simmer for about 20 minutes; you can eat it!
4 How to shell chestnuts
1, heat expansion and contraction method. Raw chestnuts into the freezer, frozen two hours out, this time because of thermal expansion and contraction, the fruit of the raw chestnut shrinkage, and the separation of the shell, this time with a pinch of the shell on the crack.
2, the raw chestnut into the boiling water, cook 4-5 minutes or so, and then quickly removed, into the cold water in the soaking five minutes, note that it must be five minutes, too long or too short a period of time will affect the chestnut shell, so a rise and a contraction of the shell of raw chestnuts and the separation of the flesh, it will be very easy to peel off.
3, the boiling of lightly salted water into the raw chestnuts soaked for five minutes and then removed, this method is not only the shell of the chestnut even inside the skin will be very easy to peel with the shell.